A striking lighthouse with views of the Gulf of Mexico and of a military air show.

Come for the 14-foot-long taxidermy alligator. Stay for the mini costumed gators shooting pool.

This man's death led (indirectly) to Vermont's independence in 1777.

In the hills of southern Indiana is the idyllic studio and museum of legendary artist T.C. Steele.

A group of college students hauled a desk up a mountain more than 40 years ago. The notebooks inside have become a makeshift time capsule.

A stone marker dedicated to a Black veteran of the American Revolution who refused to leave his land near Walden Pond.

An undeciphered text is inscribed on a mysterious stone slab.

This monumental gateway marks the northern edge of Brighton and is a welcome sign to all visitors to the seaside city.

According to local folklore, this odd face on a wall of Rudyard Kipling's former home can bring visitors a bit of luck.

This large torch on the Hove coastline helped Sir Francis Drake defend England from the Spanish fleet.

This seemingly normal pathway actually forms a giant fingerprint.

This craggy boulder is fabled to be either a druidic relic or Satan's stumbling block.

An unassuming churchyard is the resting place of a pioneering surveyor and reluctant namesake of a mountain.

These seaside shelters once enjoyed by royalty remain a part of local history.

The natural history museum displaying the British bird collections and dioramas of Edward Booth, free of charge.

Tucked between a side street and a theater, this arch once led to a prestigious riding school, and now opens to a courtyard and community garden.

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

One fisherman has used his love of pebbles and shore to create a crazy garden of rocky art.

Half-drowned wooden stumps and stone blocks are all that remain of a Victorian landing that was destroyed by storms.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

Before 1993, this historic-looking village—King Charles III's pet project—didn’t exist at all.

This pub has roots dating back to 1430.

Behind one of the world's most impenetrable vaults is a massive collection of retail silver.